Definitions for annihilate
əˈnaɪ əˌleɪtan·ni·hi·late

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry offverb

   kill in large numbers

   "the plague wiped out an entire population"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. annihilateverb

   To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

2. annihilateverb

   To treat as worthless, to vilify.

3. Etymology: From annihilo, from ad + nihil.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To ANNIHILATEverb

   Etymology: ad and nihilum, Lat.

   1. To reduce to nothing; to put out of existence.

   It is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated; but that as it was the work of the omnipotency of God, to make somewhat of nothing; so it requireth the like omnipotency to turn somewhat into nothing. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 100.

   Thou taught’st me, by making me
   Love her, who doth neglect both me and thee,
   T’ invent and practise this one way, t’ annihilate all three. John Donne.

   He despaired of God’s mercy; he, by a decollation of all hope, annihilated his mercy. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 2.

   Whose friendship can stand against assaults, strong enough to annihilate the friendship of puny minds; such an one has reached true constancy. South.

   Some imagined, water sufficient to a deluge was created, and, when the business was done, disbanded, and annihilated. John Woodward, Natural History.

   2. To destroy, so as to make the thing otherwise than it was.

   The flood that hath altered, deformed, or rather annihilated, this place, so as no man can find any mark or memory thereof. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

   3. To annul; to destroy the agency of any thing.

   There is no reason, that any one commonwealth should annihilate that whereupon the whole world has agreed. Richard Hooker.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. annihilate

   To annihilate means to completely destroy or wipe out. It can be used to refer to the total destruction of a physical object, entity, or concept, or the defeat or overwhelming of an opponent in competition or conflict. In physics, it refers to the process where a particle and its antiparticle collide and then convert into energy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Annihilateverb

   to reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be

2. Annihilateverb

   to destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees

3. Annihilateverb

   to destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness

4. Annihilateadjective

   annihilated

5. Etymology: [L. annihilare; ad + nihilum, nihil, nothing, ne hilum (filum) not a thread, nothing at all. Cf. File, a row.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Annihilate

   an-nī′hil-āt, v.t. to reduce to nothing: to put out of existence: to render null and void, to abrogate.—ns. Annihilā′tion, state of being reduced to nothing: act of destroying: (theol.) the destruction of soul as well as body; Annihilā′tionism, the belief that the soul dies with the body.—adj. Annihilā′tive.—n. Annihilā′tor, one who annihilates. [L. annihilatus, annihilāre; ad, to, nihil, nothing.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. annihilate

   To reduce to nothing; to destroy the existence of; to cause or cease to be; as, the army was annihilated.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of annihilate in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of annihilate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of annihilate in a Sentence

1. President Barack Obama:

   Israel will not accept an agreement which allows a country that vows to annihilate us to develop nuclear weapons, period. there is no daylight when it comes to our support for Israel's security.

2. Devlet Bahceli:

   There will be no peace in Turkey until Assad is brought down from his throne. Turkey must start plans to enter Damascus now, and annihilate the cruel ones.

3. Albert Einstein:

   Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

4. Gilad Erdan:

   Iran does not try to hide its intention of destroying the world’s only Jewish state. Spreading antisemitism, denying the Holocaust and even proposing legislation calling for Israel’s destruction by the year 2041, how is it possible that the Iranian Parliament proposing to annihilate a member state is not at the top of this council's agenda ?

5. Gary Howell:

   If you want them out of the park, you are going to have to annihilate them; shoot every last one of them, once these lead cows know where to go, you'll never move them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=annihilate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Annihilate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=annihilate
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annihilate
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=annihilate
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html